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Wear OS 4 may finally allow you to switch phones without factory resetting your watch (www.gsmarena.com)

submitted 1 year ago by MHcharLEE@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.ml

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why was that even a thing/requirement?

[–] Devgard@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

its to ensure that if someone steals your watch, your data can't easily be accessed (eg. google wallet etc)

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah okay that sounds actually reasonable. But why the reset? Also getting access by stealing a thing sounds like a huge security flaw to me (2FA and such).